[Rant] Have Your Gaming Attitudes Changed With Age?

I'd say my attitude and my preference for games has shifted rather progressively from when I was a kid into adulthood. The more time goes by, the more I tend to look for strategy games and the less I tend to go for JRPGs. Real RPGs have crept more and more into my gaming pattern as well, and it's now to the point that I basically don't play the JRPGs at all any more. The last one I played was FFXIII, and while I did get to the end of it out of pure boredom at that moment in my life and not having anything else to play. I really didn't enjoy the experience as much as I thought I would. Maybe the amount of JRPGs I play has declined because I don't have either of the main handheld systems, which seem to have the lion's share of those games nowadays, at least compared to the PS3.

I also play a lot more multiplayer games than I did before, but that's probably just because my brother has moved to Montreal and so we can have gaming sessions whenever we both have a bit of time. Before he moved here, the occasions I had to do that where pretty few and far between, mostly because the friends I have in Montreal are for the most part not the kind of people who enjoy playing games more than for a short bit.

As far as the amount of time I put into gaming, I'd say it's been pretty constant, with a slight decline as time goes by, if only because real world considerations just keep mounting as I get older. I figure that's the same for pretty much everyone though. I still enjoy gaming as much as I did before, so it really is just a question of not having as much time in general for it.

Jam it back in, in the dark.